Unclassified road crash in Bexley DA17 on 20 April 2022 at 23:40 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bexley at 23:40 on Wednesday 20 April 2022. The 21-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2022
- Wednesday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48642, longitude 0.15234, in the DA17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belvedere, Bexley, DA17 5QL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010371689
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 53 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2015.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 16 November 2015
53 m awayRef 201501RY10437
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 7 January 1992
53 m awayRef 199201RY00011
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 12 June 1993
71 m awayRef 199301RY00359
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 29 January 1989
72 m awayRef 198901RY00075
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 26 March 1990
75 m awayRef 199001RY00198
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 20 June 2017
81 m awayRef 2017010043970
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2022010371689 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bexley road accident statistics for 2022.